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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:20:40 -0800
From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
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To: Dan Epure <gepu@iogyte.ro>
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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: pseudo terminals in 7.0  - pts implementation
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Dan Epure wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> For the moment this feature is only available in HEAD. I think the limi=
t is "only" 512 master/slave pairs.
> Should be enough for this year. Is it going to be merged  in 6.3 ?=20
> Thanks again.

I don't think so.  Currently the FreeBSD pts implementation has some
serious issues that must be resolved before we can "officially" expose
it to users, and merging it to 6.3 does not seem to be reasonable at
this moment.

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!


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